Instant crash on stanby

This is a discussion about Instant crash on stanby in the Customization Tweaking category; Major problem here, i formatted my comp, and now i can no longer suspend, the command is there, but when i try it, it says preparing to stand by but instantly locks up. Im running win2k sp3, amd k7m motherboard, athlon 500.

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Major problem here, i formatted my comp, and now i can no longer suspend, the command is there, but when i try it, it says preparing to stand by but instantly locks up.
 
Im running win2k sp3, amd k7m motherboard, athlon 500. I installed the via 4 in 1 drivers which have power management drivers for my motherboard. in device manager there are no problems, but i cant stanby even though i could before i formatted, whats wrong?!

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did you have sp3 on there b4 or another release
it could be sp3 that is your problem.

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sorry false alarm, i fixed the problem. I had to simply uninstall all the power management drivers (under system in device manager). This included anything about power or ACPI. i rebooted, reinstalled some drivers and stanby now works.
 
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